So in this thread tell of all the noobish things you did when you started playing paintball like calling your marker a gun, or calling paintballs BULLETS.

To start off, when I first got my Axe, I saw paint on my detents and asked people how to clean your eyes out. Yes I thought my detents were my eyes. Another time, I thought that the Tipmman 98 rentals were the best markers out there, until I saw an EGO.

I used to think that a 22" barrel was the most accurate piece of shit out there. I also used to think that electronic guns were a big deal, when in reality, they are more common than a mech gun. I also used to think that Tippmanns were awesome, I still think they are pretty good if you don't mind the extra weight but they aren't an awesome tournament gun for most people.

I was at a field with a friend and he saw a g6r. My friend said to the guy with the g6r, bro you gun shoots really fast for a mechanical. I told him it wasnt mechanical. But he refused and told me because the bolt was exposed made it mechanical. #FACEPALM

My two sons had started playing paintball and my oldest - he was about 14 and had saved up his money and bought something called a 'Smart Parts Impulse'. (It was the first model). I knew nothing about paintball at the time. The boys talked me into playing. While we were waiting for the game to start, my son said his gun wasn't working right. It would shoot, but the paintball wouldn't come out. We looked it over and had no clue what the problem was. I was afraid to touch the thing.

Then an old grizzled veteran we nicknamed 'Sarge' came over. He looked at it, shot it once. Pulled the bolt out, rotated it 180 degrees, and put it back in. The gun worked just fine after that. That was the day we learned about bolts in paintball guns.

That time my hopper and tank were off my marker, and I absentmindedly "dry-fired" into my own hand, thereby learning three things: always check your breech, regs can hold pressure after the tank is removed, and tweezers can be handy for pulling paint shell out of your flesh.

when i first bought my etek 3, i had no idea how poppets or speedball guns really worked. So while i was buying it, i took the bolt out and tried to put it back in, it locked in front of the rammer instead of on it. and when i gassed up and pulled the trigger, the rammer was hitting the bolt pin.

Then when i finally figured it out, and i pulled the trigger again, there was a loud pop of a dryfire inside my car (yes, we made the transaction in my car next to a park in the middle of the night).

-Shot myself in the foot
-Making my C3 leak propane, because I put the spring back in the reg the wrong way tearing the rubber
-Being amazed at the accuracy on my Lapco barrel
-Being amazed at how far my Tippmann shot
-Being amazed how quiet my Etek was out the box, then realising it has bolt stick
-Pressure tester bursting out the back of my gun because I didn't press it in
-Breaking my HPR pressure tester by turning the pressure up twice what it should be
-Buying Tippmann upgrades

i facepalm every time someone from the local field brings up how i stood up for the mini's and got banned from the local forums because I was "rude and careless in how I talk to other people online"...

who'da thunk...

I will fucking cut you AceComets, I will cut you like....paper with......scissors?

i cant think of any noobish thinks i used to do other than when i got a rt kit from my spyder when i first got it. Other than that I was way too self conscious of what i was doing and always made sure i wasnt doing anything stupid

my friend over lubed his gun (bt delta) and it fired non stop full auto for 3 mins straight in the registration area (barrel sock flew off ..ppl headed for the hills until it ran out of paint but it was still goin until we removed the tank)

My two sons had started playing paintball and my oldest - he was about 14 and had saved up his money and bought something called a 'Smart Parts Impulse'. (It was the first model). I knew nothing about paintball at the time. The boys talked me into playing. While we were waiting for the game to start, my son said his gun wasn't working right. It would shoot, but the paintball wouldn't come out. We looked it over and had no clue what the problem was. I was afraid to touch the thing.

Then an old grizzled veteran we nicknamed 'Sarge' came over. He looked at it, shot it once. Pulled the bolt out, rotated it 180 degrees, and put it back in. The gun worked just fine after that. That was the day we learned about bolts in paintball guns.

I put my auto cocker bolt in upside down once after the first time I cleaned it, took everyone at my field 3 hours of tooling around before we figured it out lmfao

Whilst reffing a game, I told a kid to stop shooting full auto. He had some sort of higher-end gun and shooting crazy fast compared to everyone else. He said that he wasn't and pulled the trigger once and held down to prove he wasn't. He continued to unload in the following games.

I just started playing a few weeks back so it is still fresh in my head.

We play on a scenario field. I'm with my team at the start point. I tell a few of them that I had no clue what to do. Friendly bunch of guys. They say run to that wall and shoot at anyone coming toward you. Sounds simple of enough. I follow directions to the letter. Guy comes toward me I step out and start pulling the trigger as fast as I can. Guy pauses for a second then keeps coming. What the hell where are my "bullets" going! Guy stops about 15 feet away raise his gun and shoots me 1 time and runs past.

As I walk off the field a referee is waving me over laughing. He tells me "um man, you have to take the barrel cover off for the gun to work!"

When I rented the gun the guy had told me the safety rules. Keep you barrel cover on at all times and mask on at all times while on the field. I guess he assumed that a 38 year old man would know to take the cover off during the game!

Bad news is I embarrassed the hell out of myself!
Good news is everyone knows I'm the new guy so they are all helping me learn the ropes!

Thinking that barrels made your marker more accurate, my friends still think that, one even said not too long ago because it's rifled it makes it shoot so much straighter because it puts spin on the ball.

Thinking a spyder E-MR1 with C02 and no force feed loader... 15 bps no eyes
Chop ALL the Balls!
Also, I used to think guns with double triggers were the best and thought pump was stupid. Now i have a T2!